[220]Against tracking hares on the snow and killing them with “dogge or beche bow,” was one of the statutes of Henry VIII., made 1523 (_Statutes of the Realm_, vol. iii., p. 217). [221]In that winter 300 deer were starved to death in Boldrewood Walk. _Journals of the House of Commons_, vol. xliv., pp. 561, 594. [222]I have never in the Forest met the old phrase of “shaketime,” or rather “shack-time,” as it should be written, and still used of the pigs going in companies after grain or acorns, according to Miss Gurney, in Norfolk. _Transactions of the Philological Society_, 1855, p. 35. [223]On this word, see Appendix I., under “Hoar-Withey,” p. 283. [224]By a decree of the Court of Exchequer, in the twenty-sixth year of Elizabeth, the keepers were allowed to take all the honey found in the trees in the Forest. [225]A local name for a sieve, called, also, a “rudder;” which last word is, in different forms, used throughout the West of England. [226]For other words applied to cows of various colours, see Barnes’s _Glossary of the Dorset Dialect_, under the words “capple-cow,” p. 323; “hawked cow,” p. 346; and “linded cow,” p. 358. [227]_Glossary of the Provincial Words and Places in Wiltshire_, pp. 37, 38. London, 1842. [228]See Müller’s _Science of Language_, pp. 345-351; and compare Wedgwood, _Dictionary of English Etymology_, introduction, pp. 5-17. [229]_Dictionary of English Etymology_, p. 260. Manwood uses “bugalles” as a translation of _buculi_. _A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest_, f. iii., sect. xxvii., 1615. [230]Cunning, I need scarcely add, is here used in its original sense of knowing, from the Old-English _cunnan_, as we find in Psalm cxxxvii. v. 5. [231]See ch. xvi. p. 178. [232]_Apology for Smectymnus_, quoted by Richardson. The word is even used by Locke. [233]Corrected from ”literally the raw-mouse”—_errata_ [234]Miss Gurney, in her _Glossary of Norfolk Words_, gives “ranny” as a shrew-mouse. _Transactions of the Philological Society_, 1855, p. 35. The change of _e_ into _a_ is worth noticing, as illustrative of what was said in the previous chapter, p. 167, of the pronunciation of the West-Saxon. [235]The word “more” was in good use less than a century ago; whilst the term “morefall,” as we have seen in chapter iv. p. 43, foot-note, was very common in the time of the Stuarts. Mr. Barnes, in his _Glossary of the Dorset Dialect_, pp. 363, 391, gives us “mote,” and “stramote,” as “a stalk of grass,” which serve still better to explain St. Matthew. [236]Thorpe’s Preface to the English translation of Pauli’s _Life of Alfred the Great_, p. vi.